Example sentences of "a [noun] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chlorophyll a values up to 170 mg m -2 were recorded in spring and up to 40 mg m -2 in summer . |
| 2 | The response was a tightening up of Poor Law policy from 1871 . |
| 3 | There 's a board up to that . |
| 4 | Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe . |
| 5 | Lloyd put a foot up on one of the chairs and flicked imaginary dust from the toecap with his fingertips . |
| 6 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 7 | Abortion of a male up to 40 days and a female up to 80 days was thus considered permissible until 1989 , when the Church adopted its current position — that the soul was infused at conception — which effectively outlaws abortion . |
| 8 | You get a build up of black heads around the nose , and around the chin . |
| 9 | It is reasonable to expect with a re an extensive programme like , like section eleven that there has been a build up of expertise , hat there has been a build up of educational resources and why should one area of the service be exempt from examination or assessment . |
| 10 | There there was a build up in that I think we we were one of the last towns to have the problem . |
| 11 | The commission , looking at some gloomy Treasury Department projections , recommended a small trimming of benefits in the distant future and a speeding up of planned increases in payroll taxes . |
| 12 | They 're trying to make a dictionary up for everyday language , that everybody uses . |
| 13 | It arranges for the house to be valued to determine its minimum selling price and the employee receives a figure up to this amount from the company so that the purchase of the next property can go ahead . |
| 14 | and Mark remember on Monday the they got a mix up on that letter for the management , right ? |
| 15 | Vidlin — small , low-grade , Cu-Zn stratiform sulphide deposit within a zone up to 4 km long and 14 m thick in Dalradian metasediments . |
| 16 | Modular fuel tanks ( you literally switch tanks by landing , disposing of the empty one and clipping a full one on ) give the CIRV a five-hour maximum endurance and a range up to 250 miles , or fifty miles unrefuelled , cruising at 30–50 mph after a take-off run which can be as short at two metres . |
| 17 | As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support . |
| 18 | I saw a boy up in one of the trees . |
| 19 | Erm , the fifty P , P a kilo up to fifteen thousand , that I |
| 20 | The license permits the Distributor to manufacture the Videos for a period up to twelve months of the signing of this schedule . |
| 21 | The license permits the Distributor to manufacture the Videos for a period up to twelve months of the signing of this schedule . |
| 22 | The license permits the Distributor to manufacture the Videos for a period up to twelve months of the signing of this schedule . |
| 23 | The license permits the Distributor to manufacture the Videos for a period up to twelve months of the signing of this schedule . |
| 24 | He and the Bosnian Croat leader , Mate Boban , also signed a new paper giving interim arrangements for governing the country during a period up to two years . |
| 25 | The 1952 A " Levels resulted in five State Scholarships , two Stockport Major Scholarships , two Stockport Major Exhibitions , and three Cheshire Major University Scholarships — a record up to that time . |
| 26 | At night , the 6 volt Sensor Light is controlled by a reliable passive infra-red motion detector that will detect a person up to 35 ‘ ft ‘ away . |
| 27 | Community midwives used to have to visit every mum , as a minimum , twice a day up to postnatal day three , and then daily up to day ten . |
| 28 | A day up in that Manchester Studio . |
| 29 | But in business these days , with a loosening up of rigid authoritarian organisation and a ‘ flattening out ’ of structure , it 's much more difficult . |
| 30 | Firms set prices as a mark up over average cost . |